Definition of aphrodite

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Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..

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Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans..
Polygamous :: Polygamous (a.) Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
Eros :: Eros (n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid..
Sea Mouse :: Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides..
Polyandria :: Polyandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle..
Dimorphism :: Dimorphism (n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly..
Monoecious :: Monoecious (a.) Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious..
Aphrodisian :: Aphrodisian (a.) Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. Aphrodisian dames [that is, courtesans]..
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.
Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless..
Hercogamous :: Hercogamous (a.) Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
Androgyne :: Androgyne (n.) An hermaphrodite.
Monoclinous :: Monoclinous (a.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower..
Unisexual :: Unisexual (a.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious..
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..
Polygamia :: Polygamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant..
Trigamous :: Trigamous (a.) Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers..
Scrat :: Scrat (n.) An hermaphrodite.
Uterus :: Uterus (n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append..
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